PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM Vol. 103 Washington: 1953 No. 3323 REVIEW OF THE INDO-PACIFIC ANEMONE FISHES, GENUS AMPHIPRION, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES. By Leonard P. Schultz During the summer of 1950 Dr. Aj"thur D. Welander, School o Fisheries, University of Washington, and I were engaged in studying reef fishes brought back from the Marshall Islands by the staff of the Applied Fisheries Laboratory of the University of Washington. Among this material was a specunen of anemone fish that we could not identify with any known species. After I returned to the U. S. National Museum, I reviewed the descriptions of all known species, compared that specimen with the numerous lots of Amphiprion in the National Museum, and found that it represented a new species. During March 1951, I studied the anemone fishes in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, and found another undescribed species from Mauritius. Descriptions and analyses of species referable to the genus Amphi-prion have been based on so few specimens, usually only one or two, that the problem of variability or constancy of the color pattern has been neglected. For most of the few himdred species among more than fifty fish families that I have studied in detail the basic color pattern has been observed to be fairly constant. It is of great value for the recognition of species, especially in the genus Amphiprion. Weber and de Beaufort (The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago, vol. 8, pp. 330-348, 1940) recognized eight species, whereas we have distinguished fourteen and there may be others recognizable when larger series are compared and additional characters studied. Fin ray counts were made on various species and these data are recorded in table 1. Except for original descriptions, no attempt was made to include all references to species referable to the genus Amphiprion. Whenever 238537—53 187
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